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Echeandia chandleri
(Greenman & C. H. Thompson) M. C. Johnston, Vasc. Pl. Texas ed. 2. 18. 1990.
Lila de los llanos
Anthericum chandleri Greenman & C. H. Thompson, Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 1: 405. 1914
Storage roots enlarged 2—8 cm from corms, 2—5 cm, or thickened throughout. Leaves: basal (2—)5—12, 15—50 cm × 4—12(—16) mm, blade narrowly linear to narrowly elliptic, margins entire, often short-ciliate; cauline 1—5, 6.5—27 cm, blade long-acuminate, the proximal usually exceeding next node. Inflorescence 1, 0—4-branched, 18—76 cm, glabrous or scabrescent. Flowers facing outward or somewhat declinate; tepals elliptic, 10—20 mm, outer 2.5—4.5 mm wide, inner 4.5—8 mm wide; filaments inserted in covered pits, narrowly cylindric, (4—)5—9.5 mm; anthers distinct, usually not versatile, usually twisted and/or reflexed, thus appearing versatile, 2—3 mm; ovary 2—5 mm. Capsules broadly oblong to oblong, 8—14 × 5—7 mm.
Flowering Apr, May, Aug--Dec. Coastal plains, piedmont; 0--1000 m; Tex.; Mexico (San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas).
